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Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... they suffered their worst returns since 2011. Numbers from industry researcher Eurekahedge showed that its benchmark hedge fund index returned 1.56% in 2015. Though that's the worst absolute return in four years, it's still some way ahead of underlying ...

Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... in changing economics for fund managers who finance trades through prime brokers, EY said. The company's 2015 Global Hedge Fund and Investor Survey found 29% of respondents said their prime brokers increased fees in the past year, and an additional 22% ...

Man Diversified Alternatives recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Zenith Investment partners has reaffirmed its 'recommended' rating for the Man Diversified Alternatives fund with it ranking highest among its peer group in the researcher's 2015 Multi Strategy and Fund of Hedge Funds Sector Report. Man Group is one ...

New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... of measurable opportunities. These return opportunities can be harvested from a number of beta sources familiar to hedge fund investors: long-term trend following, market neutral momentum, value, quality, selling options and currency carry trade. While ...

Oil price fall forces sovereign funds to switch gears

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Oil and gas export revenues are helping fund three quarters of sovereign wealth fund assets globally, but as oil prices remain lower, sovereign funds are expected to focus on other parts of the economy. Moody's Investors Survey research of global sovereign ...

Northern Trust appoints head of hedge funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Northern Trust has announced a new head of hedge fund services for Asia-Pacific, aligning with an evolving service demand in the hedge fund industry. The internal move sees Ali Sheikh appointed to the Asia-Pacific role. He was most recently a senior ...

Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
Mine Wealth + Wellbeing will more than double its investment team by June next year in a move set to "encourage greater innovation" and deliver greater investment capability. The $10 billion industry superannuation fund announced it will be growing ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
Towers Watson has appointed three people to its global hedge fund research division, including a senior investment consultant in Sydney. Aongus O'Gorman joins Towers Watson's team in Sydney from boutique consultancy Round Tower Solutions, where he was ...

Administrator buys Asia-Pacific hedge fund business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
The fund branch of an Australian boutique administrator has acquired the Asia-Pacific hedge fund administration business of Alter Domus. MainstreamBPO announced its US$1 million initial purchase price to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... Sowerby that Blue Sky's water investments could be classified as infrastructure and that if the company was able to add a hedge fund capability it would have all four pillars of an alternatives fund manager. "That was when the lightbulb went on and I ...